Fall 2024 / Spring 2025
Robert Macfarlane IS A RIVER ALIVE?
The renowned nature writer and author of the bestselling Underland delivers a revelatory book that transforms how we look at the natural world—and life itself.
“A naturalist who can unfurl a sentence with the breathless ease of a master angler.”—NY TIMES
Coming in May 2025
Joshua Howe and Alexander Lemons WARBODY: A Marine Sniper and the Hidden Violence of Modern Warfare
A friendship between an environmental historian and a chronically ill US Marine yields a powerful exploration into the toxic effects of war on the human body.
“Important and compelling… Anyone interested in healing from war, helping someone heal from war, or just healing our savaged environment will be moved and enlightened by this book.”—Karl Marlantes, bestselling author of Matterhorn
Coming in March 2025
Sebastian Smee PARIS IN RUINS: Love, War, and the Birth of Impressionism
The Pulitzer Prize–winning art critic’s gripping account of the “Terrible Year” in Paris and its monumental impact on the rise of Impressionism.
“Vibrant and incisive… Paris in Ruins liberates Impressionism from the clichés of dorm-room posters and greeting-card sentimentality.
”—Hamilton Cain, LOS ANGELES TIMES
“An inspiring book… Sebastian Smee has a gimlet eye, a seductive style and a novelist’s feel for character and incident.”—Christopher Benfey, NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW
September 2024
Carrie Rickey A COMPLICATED PASSION: The Life and Work of Agnès Varda
The first major biography of the filmmaker hailed by Martin Scorsese as “one of the gods of cinema.”
“I devoured A Complicated Passion happily, and so I suspect will you.”—Dwight Garner, NY TIMES
“A compact, complete, and highly enjoyable book.”—A. S. Hamrah, BOOKFORUM
“Enthralling… Fervently detailed and briskly narrated.”—Richard Brody, THE NEW YORKER
September 2024
Melissa L. Sevigny BRAVE THE WILD RIVER: The Untold Story of Two Women Who Mapped the Botany of the Grand Canyon
*NATIONAL BESTSELLER*
The riveting tale of two pioneering botanists and their historic boat trip down the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon.
“Everything a book should be.”—NATHALIA HOLT, author of Rise of the Rocket Girls
Out now
Ben Goldfarb CROSSINGS: How Road Ecology Is Shaping the Future of Our Planet
*NATIONAL BESTSELLER*
The global ecological transformations wrought by roads, by the award-winning author of Eager. Winner of the Rachel Carson Award | Grand Prize Winner of the Banff Mountain Book Competition
A Best Book of the Year in the New York Times, The New Yorker, Science News, Smithsonian Magazine.
“A powerhouse of a book…comprehensive and engaging.”—David Gessner, Washington Post
Out now